Szablyár Péter: Sky-high - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2007)
Office Blocks and Public Buildings
despoiled building greets its clients in Fiumei űt as an elderly lady who has preserved her dignity even in poverty. "The rolling mill of Buda" - the Hotel Budapest No. 47 Szilágyi Erzsébet fasor, District II The sliding-shutter technology employed with the construction of the Hotel Budapest, the capital's first and only hotel-in-the-round, in 1967 was described as "remarkable even by international standards and certainly unique in Hungary” in contemporary journals. ■ Cartoon by Tibor Kaján in the July 1968 iaue o/j Budapest magazine it was designed in the Institute for Designing Public and Underground Constructions (József Thoma Kossuth-prize and György Szrogh Ybl-prize laureates in collaboration with interor designers István Németh and József Király). On-site work was supervised by József Paál. The sliding shutters were installed and operated by Governmental Building Co. (ÁÉV) No. 31. The shutters were moved with a special elevator operated from a support pad on the fourth floor. The ready-made concrete used was brought here from the concrete factory of the Public Utilities Contractors near Árpád Bridge. This involved what was a challenging logistic operation at the time. The section above the 4th storey taking four months and a half to complete, floor 17 had been cast in 25
